• Check whether there is flow of BPDUs between devices.
•
Check whether the port is receiving any packets from the peer. First clear the statistics
and issue the above command using the clear spanning-tree statistics
command.
• Check
to see whether the port is receiving any BPDU using the show spanning-tree
statistics command.
The number of packets received should be incrementing on a regular basis if this bridge is not
root-bridge. If the bridge is non-root and if it is not receiving the packets then it could be a
hardware problem. Try to hot swap the card.
Troubleshooting a Data Link Layer problem
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